Do you remember if the handout included patch-writing? That’s the most common type of plagiarism I see: students paste in portions of sentences from internet sources without quotation marks. If there is an in-text citation, I assume they just tried and failed to paraphrase, but if they didn’t include a citation at…

Yes, and I still have college seniors plagiarizing. The most common types of plagiarism I see is a quote that’s cited but they “forgot” the quotation marks and sentences pasted in from internet sources that aren’t cited (again, no quotation marks). I even let them view their score on the plagiarism checker and…

I can’t even understand that logic. I have seen them go after parents who support their transgender children’s transition and call them child abusers. I’m like: if you believe gender is a social construct and should be abolished, why are you against gender self-determination in children? You say that transgender…

The funny thing is, I am a gender-non-comforming cisgender woman.  I’m the type of woman radfems are supposedly invested in protecting/saving from extinction or whatever.  Yet, my transgender comrades have been so incredibly supportive and loving in our fight against patriarchy.  They actually have my back.  Unlike…

That’s the one. I avoid typing her name because I don’t want to give her the attention she craves.

I can definitely agree and also want to normalize periods, breastfeeding, reproduction, etc. However, being a mom myself, I would want to welcome transmen to a pregnancy class or nursing support group. My own opinion is that we can fight stigma around reproduction and be inclusive of transgender people at the same…

She also doesn’t seem to think non-binary people exist.

It is funny you say you’re for the abolition of gender, but believe there is such a thing as an opposite gender and that womanhood stems from biology.

I don’t think anyone is calling for an end to women’s only spaces, just those that exclude on a basis of genitalia. And, I don’t see how women’s only spaces are any less empowering by including transwomen.  I am part of a feminist martial arts school that was founded in the early 80s in a context of women learning how…

Try using the term “TERF” in a tweet and watch what happens. They watch for the term to be used to cry about being oppressed. There is a particular notorious TERF lawyer and writer who watches for her name to be used, and then threatens legal action against anyone who critiques her online.  

When I’ve stood up for my trans sisters, I’ve been accused of using my male privilege and arguing in a masculinist style in order to silence women. I don’t think they believed me when I said I was cisgender. 

I don’t even understand how TERFs can call themselves radical feminists. The old school radical feminists, excluding Janice Raymond, argued for separating gender from biology and extreme pluralism of gender expression. When I’ve engaged so-called radical feminists online they for the most part don’t seem to know their…

This was in a Deep Space 9 fan group! After the moderator closed the discussion, one or two people PMed me to continue the “discussion.”

I did say “some entitled fans.” They may be the minority, but they are still a toxic segment of the fandom. Much of it is an undercurrent. Just yesterday, someone told me Sisko wasn’t a real captain. Last month, two Star Trek fans told me my students were lazy, entitled millennials because my students were writing…

Unfortunately, in my experience, Star Trek fans aren’t much better. I think there is some parallel between the Discovery backlash and the The Last Jedi backlash. Some entitled fans don’t like seeing women of color in the captain’s chair.

I do believe you. I take my toddler to play at Cal Anderson park sometimes—and hung out there regularly the summer Pokémon Go came out—and never saw any needles. I wonder of someone cleans up the playground in the morning now.

It is interesting that Jenny Durkan is positioning herself as a champion for ending the war on drugs and standing up to Trump. When she was the US District Attorney under Obama, she raided medical marijuana dispensaries, jailed anarchists for months without charges, and hired a sex offender to entrap two Muslims in a…

I hear about needles being left around but I must be oblivious. I live about 2 miles from downtown and haven’t ever found one, and I take my toddler downtown, and to various parks and libraries and public bathrooms pretty often.

I do support the needle exchange opening, however, because I believe it will improve public…

It is true our homeless population has increased since the recession. Most homeless folks were living in Seattle or King County when they became homeless, contrary to what the local news reports. What is different, since I was a kid, is homeless folks live in the suburbs now rather than just congregating downtown near…

I was in the Dragonriders of Pern fandom from maybe 96-04. Anne McCaffrey DID allow fanfic, but heavily regulated what fans could write. Original characters only, no stories set in Benden Weyr, no mutated dragon colors. The fic could not be posted on public sites. It could only be published in zines, private email…